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Saturday, November 22. 2025A few Saturday morning links for busy people Construction Sites In Charlotte Go Dark As Illegals Hide From ICE Following months of trading insults, Trump offers Zohran Mamdani nothing but praise after their first meeting Trump likes winners Ukraine & Europe Reject Trump's Russia Peace Plan, Prepare Emergency Call Europe loves war Comments
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..."Construction Sites In Charlotte Go Dark As Illegals Hide From ICE..."
What isn't clear from any of that reporting / tweets is whether all of the people in so-called hiding are hiding because they're illegal aliens, or hiding because they're Hispanic and don't want to be hassled by ICE. I'm a strong supporter of the ICE efforts, I think most citizens are regardless of ancestry - but ICE needs to be doing a better job to make certain they're not detaining US Citizens. They need to do this up front. I'm sure that a certain percentage of these are false flag provocations by activists intended to inflame the issue, but that's something one can combat with simple tactical measures. I suspect much of the 'empty stores' story really is about Hispanic citizens avoid potential hassle, but until we start to get some actual reporting on it, the conservative media really should be doing a better job a not stating out right that empty stores and empty construction sites equals 100% illegal aliens were totally the only explanation. School kids walking out? Same thing. Biased and under-informed reporting. I have much the same worry. I don't know who is not being careful enough, but someone is not. We can't control biased reporting, but it's a Bill Belichick principle to focus on what you can control. You still do what you can to try and limit the PR damage and more importantly, actually get it right.
As for Mamdani, Trump can be very good with people in person. It's a tactic that likely served him well in real estate, where the others came in expecting to fight with you and rehearsing their arguments but putting them off guard with charm and getting surprise concessions. I'm fine with that. Trump creates chaos because he is better in chaotic situations than other people. He makes mistakes he shouldn't, but gets victories he shouldn't as well. "but ICE needs to be doing a better job"
Do you really believe ICE is intentionally arresting citizens? In those rare cases where ICE arrests a citizen did the citizen refuse to cooperate giving the ICE agent no other option but to detain him? The anti ICE demonstrations are being financed by Chinese billionaires... and other foreign and domestic activists and NGO's. Ask yourself why they would do that and then you will understand why it is so important we remove illegals. This invasion was planned to destabilize our country, why? Yes the Democrats eagerly went along and their intent was different they simply want to replace American voters with foreign voters but the overall goal is to plunge the U.S. into chaos. Biden allowed in over 20 million illegals including Islamic terrorist and Chinese spies/soldiers. This is literally true and should terrify us. But we have devolved into nit picking temporary detainments of citizens who knowingly choose to put themselves into a situation where they would appear to be illegal and then refusing to offer ID. AND they do this in the hopes of weakening or stopping the effort to destabilize the country so that we will not be able to defend ourselves from attack. Also there are cases where ICE does indeed arrest and hold American citizens because they committed a crime, for example; trying to kill ICE agents. I believe we should double down, triple down on arrests and deportations. More, faster, sanctuary cities, sanctuary states, arrest citizens who interfere (not protest but actual physical interference). If mistakes are made, correct them and move on but do not slow down. Did you even read what I said, and try to comprehend it? Did you follow up and check it out, or just decide to spout?
There have been at least a couple hundred cases of ICE arresting US Citizens as they conduct their roundups, and then putting them in a holding facility, sometimes for quite a few days, with illegal aliens. ICE needs to do a better job making certain that they're not taking US citizens into custody. This includes carving out those activists trying to make a big performance for Bad Press, as well as including paying attention to those stating that they're citizens. They made a big show of stating their mission was to prioritize 'known criminals' and 'violent illegals', which then changed into, 'well if there are others there at the time, we'll take them in too'. Now I don't have a problem with that - if they're illegal liens. But if you can't even be bothered to check that those you're rounding up are illegally here, first, then you're going to lose a lot of support from the voters. Like, for midterms. I want to see Donald Trump have 4 effective years, not 2. Those Dopes in ICE that are liquidating good will need to do better. They are giving the rest of ICE a bad name, and it will hurt midterm results . "spout"!
There very well could be a couple hundred cases of ICE officers arresting or detaining citizens. As I point out, if you had read it, there are legitimate reason for federal officers to detain or arrest citizens. So let's separate any legitimate detainments or arrests from the "unlawful" arrests made intentionally. Were there any? Any at all? Or were all of those arrests lawful and justified at the time. Some of these "arrests" were videoed and online. One was a spouse fighting with ICE trying to keep her husband from being deported. You do approve of arresting a citizen who is fighting with law enforcement I hope. Another was a good citizen who spit on a federal agent. In fact almost all cases were legitimate detainments or arrests. Just as a side note, law enforcement illegally detains or arrests Americans citizens hundreds of times everyday and in most cases they get away with it. But the left doesn't care about those and the MSM doesn't generally report on them because those don't fit the narrative. Are ICE agents really doing the wrong thing or is that the propaganda. I want all of law enforcement to act appropriately and legally but I recognize that a couple of Chinese billionaires and paying American citizens to riot and provoke ICE specifically so they can create incidents that can be used to undermine the effort to find and deport these invaders. Trump won't have four effective years the left intends to kill or impeach him. We will lose seats in the midterms because once again the left is setting up to massively steal the elections. My frustration is that ICE and the administration isn't doing enough, isn't acting in a way that would fix this problem in two years never mind four years. The intent of the left is to destroy the country so that they can rule over the ashes and good Americans, patriots, are nit picking around the edges of the only man in my 82 years has tried to address this problem and fix it. Sadly I recognize Trump and MAGA will in the end lose and the USA will follow in Rome's footsteps. But what bothers me most is how many good Americans will eagerly aide the enemy in large and small ways. Why has no member of the press interviewed some of these paid protestors? I can find interviews of cartel members and terrorists on Youtube but none of paid protestors being asked to name who hired them and how much they were paid. I would guarantee you that 90 of Americans do not know that these protestors are hired and paid by foreign interests, in fact most of the protestors may not even know that it is foreign dark money they are taking to turn against their own country. Aggie:
There have been at least a couple hundred cases ----------------------------- What percentage is that of the total arrests? What percentage is that of the total Hispanic population? Getting our reality through various screens leaves us open to ginormous distortions - and most of us are abysmally bad at this sort of estimation. How many people are there in this photo of a protest? And America is huuuuuge. The numbers - of citizens, illegals, rapes, murders, arrests - beyond comprehension. This is made even more complicated by the lack of an identity card for US citizens. I did not like being issued an identity card when I took Israeli citizenship - but life in our terror-threatened society would be impossible to negotiate without it. Nobody is dumping Latinos in internment caps like Japs in WWII. In a climate where Democratic members of Congress are openly calling for sedition, I certainly think anyone obstructing ICE deserves exactly what they get - good and hard. Practically, this is the only thing that will deter Leftie activists, the only language they understand. Good people have been trained over decades in the false morality of hand-wringing and the false righteousness of misplaced mercy. Enough... we have the same problem here in Israel - the same people infuriated by the October 7 massacre go all soft when the topic of population transfer is raised. Enough. I learned a lot from this article—it’s clear and very interesting. The website is also easy to navigate and pleasant to use.
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